Autumn ~ Oh How I Long For You!

It's October 4th and it's 94 FREAKIN' degrees here today!

Everything is green. As green as it can get!

There's no pile of beautiful leaves painted an autumnal pallet.

Nope! Just hot, sticky, humid, heat and sunshine.

MY AIR CONDITIONER IS RUNNING PEOPLE! AIR CONDITIONING!

IN OCTOBER!

And November and December for that matter!

It's just re~donk~ulous!

I own what I guess you'd call a jacket. It's actually a wind~breaker. I wear it, maybe, 2 times a year. If I'm lucky! I haven't worn a pair of socks as a means of keeping my feet warm in ages. Yes, I wear them when I don my sneakers to walk and I rip them off as soon as I'm done because my feet feel like bricks that have been tossed into a fire. But no. No fuzzy socks to keep my tootsies toasty. No uggs. No gloves. No SEASONS! It's perpetually Summer.

This is a photo I took of my house at Christmastime a couple of years ago!

We planted the white inpatients for Christmas decoration!

I know there are many of you reading this, right this very second, who think it would be fantastic to have summer year round. How great, you must think, to wear flip~flops on Thanksgiving or Christmas!? You're thinking about how maddening it is to have to shovel your way out of your house and how your heating bill in the dead of winter is out of control!

I long for that.

I long for autumn evenings when there's a chill in the air reminding me that Halloween is right around the corner. I long to see the leaves change color and slowly drift to earth. I long to smell the telltale aroma of home fires burning and warm bowls of my favorite soups.

I know it sounds like I'm whining. That's because I am! The old adage is

true you always want what you {can't} don't have!

And yes ... the grass is always greener!

At least it is at my house!

Oh, how I long for autumn and all it's golden goodness.

Hello September ~ Where Ya been?

September is here! And that means Halloween is right around the corner! And then, before you know it, Thanksgiving will be here! And then, the Mother of all Holidays....CHIRSTMAS!

I live for this time of year! The decorations are starting to fill the store shelves and my mind is all a flutter with what Jake & Laney should be for Halloween. It's a very hard decision to make. They are at the age still where I can make this decision and I'm taking full advantage of it! Next year they will have opinions of their own {God help me!} and will choose for themselves. And soon after that....they'll start wanting to be stupid stuff. So until that day arrives....I get to choose.

~Delaney as Pebbles~

~Jake as Bamm Bamm~

This year I have no idea what costumes I will make for them. They are already such a "boy" and such a "girl" that I think if it doesn't have wings, wheels or swords, Jake will protest! And if It's not a mermaid, princess or just simply pretty Laney will refuse to wear it!

I guess I should just wait until October is actually here!

I can over think things then!